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The Space of Reasons
http://thespaceofreasons.blogspot.com/
Weblog devoted to epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of perception
- Added on: Apr 10th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Avery
- Listed in: Philosophy
- Tags: philosophy epistemology internalism externalism mcdowell anti-individualism
Recent Posts
Towards a Teleological Logic (Part 2)
How are we to formerly represent the claim that the purpose of the human eye is to perceive visual stimuli? One suggestion, which will ultimately prove insufficient, may be put as follows: Let E refer to the set of human eyes, and let P refer to th...
Percontations: The Nature of Probability
Towards a Teleological Logic
Teleology, broadly construed, is the study of design or purpose. Let us say that some object is teleological just in case it has an aim, function or purpose (what I will henceforth refer to as an object’s “telos”). For example, we may say ...
Philosophy Workshop Series - New School
Beginning this semester, the Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research will be hosting an ongoing series of workshops on a range of themes inspired or influenced by the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The workshop, in continuation o...
USC/UCLA Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, February 27th, 2010At the University of Southern California, Los AngelesThe graduate students of the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles, invite graduate students to submit papers in all areas of ...
Intelligent Emotions
It has been suggested, most notably by Robert Solomon, that emotions are ways of engaging the world. This is an idea I find very appealing. Solomon has also insisted that emotions are a form of intelligence. The second claim—that emotions are ...
